I am thrilled with my new job and the team I am on. I love my old team too, but the big appeal of the new job is the new stuff I get to learn every day. Since Thanksgiving I have had to quickly brush up on generic Linux skills and learn the strange nuances […]
Are Gas and Oil prices high? Or, is it just that the U.S. dollar is losing value? A joke going around the internet today is “Behold the new U.S. $3 bill: – and it has a picture of a 2 Euro coin… sort of brings an interesting point home.
In states with open primaries, that allow any registered voter to vote in any party’s primary, but only one party’s primary each election cycle; it makes very good sense for voters to cross party lines and vote wherever their tiny little vote will be most effective. Virginia is one such state, and as a Virginia […]
H. R. Clinton is proving my theory that she is more like most Republicans than most Democrats in her latest ad, which uses fear-mongering in a very Republican manner. If there was any doubt at all before this ad, there is none now. H.R. Clinton will not get my vote. Thanks to tacnukesoul I am […]
I just finished secure-erasing the hard drive and then reloading the operating system on Erci’s old PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet II) that she bought brand new in January 1999. That makes this machine over 9 years old. It is being given away because we’ve moved on to smaller, lighter, faster machines a couple of times since […]
My pristine and loaded 12″ PowerBook G4 is for sale, because I have replaced it with a MacBook Air. Specifications: 12″ PowerBook G4 (1.5GHz/1.25GB/55.89GB/DVD-ROM/CD-RW) two finger touch trackpad, USB 2.0, Firewire, 802.11b/g, 10/100baseT v90 modem, mini-DVI, bluetooth, 64mb vram on nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 Mac OS X v10.4.11 with classic emulation loaded, install CDs come […]
Was not feeling well enough to go dancing tonight, and needed a night home with Erci anyway. We tried out the new Apple TV take 2 software and rented Stardust. It started playing about 50 seconds after we picked it and selected it. We enjoyed the movie, and the instant gratification was pretty cool. Until […]
If you happen to have a few computers near your desk, or frequently have a laptop sitting next to your desktop computer; Synergy is very useful software you should know about. Synergy lets you treat adjacent computers and their screens as if they were a multi-display computer. Your keyboard and mouse movements, and cut&paste buffers […]
So I have installed Mac OS X 10.5.2 updates on 4 different machines now and it has been flawless on all and works very well. One was an in-place upgrade from Tiger (10.4.11), and that one had a strange anomaly before upgrading to 10.5.2… it got itself into a “Setup Assistant” loop, and would not […]
So a few years ago I read this excellent cyber-punk/sci-fi story by Bruce Sterling called “The Artificial Kid” and now a co-worker sends me this link: http://www.nextgendesigncomp.com/entrydetail.aspx?id=953 Quoted from the website: “Momenta, the neck worn PC also captures the best and most exciting moments of your life.” This torq-like neck recorder senses when you have […]
